Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said Sunday that Republican Gov. Scott Walker could have avoided being forced into a recall election if he had focused on creating jobs, as he had promised, instead of trying to destroy his political opponents.

"You got all this attention. My sense is, why not use it? Not for me as much as why not get out and tell the story about Wisconsin and maybe attract some companies to come and grow here?" Walker said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Plus the latest DWD figures show that while Wisconsin added a small number of jobs in May, unemployment also rose slightly. It seems we couldn't be trusted to evaluate this information until after the recall election.

david cohen wrote:Plus the latest DWD figures show that while Wisconsin added a small number of jobs in May, unemployment also rose slightly. It seems we couldn't be trusted to evaluate this information until after the recall election.

You really expected that information to be tabulated in two business days?

david cohen wrote:I expected it would be made available because the DWD said it was available, but that they had been asked not to make it "available"...hmmmmm......

Link please? All I can find about withholding numbers had to do with data prior to the end of May, and that was on the Wisconsin Citizens Media Coop, which I wouldn't consider the most trustworthy source for news about Walker after their mind-blowingly stupid piece about his illegitimate child. Releasing unemployment numbers and job gain numbers for the prior month around midway through the next month sounds pretty normal.

The weather. Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it... until now! Instead of "Jobs, jobs, jobs!" expect the GOP campaign refrain for 2012 to be "Rain, rain, rain!" And they'll deliver, too! Just like Governor Walker...